Visiting Hour-norman Maccaig Flashcards
Why is “ I will not feel” repeated?
To show the inevitability of the time where he has to face up to the situation
“Trundled”
Technique and reason for use?
Word choice
Suggests lack of care
Green and yellow can connote…?
Sickness, infection.
“As the go bobbing along green…
And yellow corridors”
“White cave of forgetfulness”
Why is this so effective?
Gives the image of curtains drawn round the hospital bed-White as if seeing through snow-vague or fading. Perhaps drifting in and out of conciousness?
What is happening in the poem?
MacCaig is going to visit a female relative - mother? Wife? Sister? And is going through the hospital and goes through his thoughts of discomfort and general feelings of being in the hospital
“Ward 7.”
What is significant about this opening of stanza 5?
It gives the image of the protagonist coming to a stand still. He’s reached the time where he must feel. His journey through the hospital is over.
What is the protagonist afraid of?
Feeling sadness and having to cope with the sight of his loved one I’ll and maybe dealing with the grief after her death.
“What seems a corpse”
What can we tell by this?
We can tell that death is on his mind and he is finding the experience uncomfortable and distressing.
Who is the poet?
Norman MacCaig
What are the main themes?
Suffering
Loneliness
What does this poem have in common to Assisi?
General themes of Pain Suffering Loneliness/isolation Outside of society Helplessness
